Is free hosting worth it
Have you thought about using a free host to create a blog or a website? Here are some more hosting tips you might consider before you make that decision. You may be thinking that free hosting is awesome right? In most cases, not really.
Free hosting is based on one thing, and thats obviously to move you to purchase hosting. Several reasons why it wouldn’t be to go to get a free hosting plan with a company that sells hosting, is first of all because a freeĀ server will be jam packed full of people testing out the feature of free out. Some of these people may just be spammers as well looking for a quick easy way to launch a load of spam only to put a load on the mail queue and be suspended. This is not helping your cause.
Another reason why a free hosting plan might not be best for you is that a hosting company is not going to give priority to a server that is free to people. These free servers tend to be down frequently. Its free, what did you expect?
The final and most important reason that a free host might not be so great to use however is the fact that you need reliability if you ever want your sight to do well not only with a community of readers but also with search engine rankings. What if you were ranking well for a term and then googlebot comes to your site and its down? This will possibly delist you from google or cause your rankings to go down.
The bottom line is, if you want to go somewhere with your website and you want it to be successful get with a good reliable host that is a paid plan. and has good tech support. These are just a few more hosting tips for you that can help your website be a bit more successful. There will be more hosting articles on other issues coming soon, so join my feed if you haven’t done so already.



User Comments
Nick
On October 22, 2007 at 11:02 pm
I think you are really on to something with using commenting as a way to gain quality traffic. I’ve used this method in an attempt to gain extra traffic. Though it wasn’t a massive explosion of traffic, it did help get a few extra users. It might also help improve your page rank.
Harry Noott
On October 23, 2007 at 8:50 am
My blog is free hosted and the service is excellent 90% of the time, about once a month there is downtime for a couple of minutes.
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